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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Flower Longhorn Beetles (Lepturinae) » Lepturini » Megachoriolaus » Megachoriolaus texanus

Species Megachoriolaus texanus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Megachoriolaus texanus (Knull) - Megachoriolaus texanus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)

Family Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles)

Subfamily Lepturinae (Flower Longhorn Beetles)

Tribe Lepturini

Genus Megachoriolaus

Species texanus (Megachoriolaus texanus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Megachoriolaus texanus (Knull)

Orig. Comb: Euryptera texana Knull 1941

Numbers

3 spp. n. of Mex. (1)

Size

Type: length 11.5 mm.; width 3 mm. (Knull 1941)

Identification

Key to spp. Giesbert & Hovore 1998

Range

Endemic to the Davis Mountains, Jeff Davis County, Texas - Map (Linsley & Chemsak 1976)(2)

Season

May to July (Linsley & Chemsak 1976)

Food

Host unknown (Linsley & Chemsak 1976)

Remarks

Described from one female specimen collected in the Davis Mountains, Texas, July 3, 1940, by D.J. and J.N. Knull. (Knull 1941)

See Also

Aside from color this species differs from M. ignitus (Schaeffer) by the more finely punctured pronotum. From M. cruentus (Martin) it differs by having larger punctures on elytra than pronotum. (Knull 1941)

Print References

Giesbert, E.F. & F.T. Hovore. 1998. Descriptions and synonymies in the North American Lepturini. Occ. Pap. of the Cons. Coleop., 2(1): 16-23.

Knull, J.N. 1941. Nine new Coleoptera (Plastoceridae, Buprestidae and Cerambycidae). Ohio J. Sci., 41:381-388, l pl. Full PDF

Linsley, E.G. & J.A. Chemsak. 1976. Cerambycidae of North America. Part VI, No. 2. Taxonomy and classification of the subfamily Lepturinae. Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol., 80: ix + 186 pp., 50 figs. Full Text

Internet References

Cerambycidae Catalog

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 20 January, 2010 - 3:12pm
Last updated 26 March, 2022 - 5:07pm

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